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A gang was caught on camera carrying out a mission impossible style raid on a Manchester house - before fleeing empty handed.

During the ‘military’ attempted break in at a semi-detached home in Didsbury two masked men spend an hour disabling security at the property.

They are caught on camera:

Knocking out street lighting

Pulling an alarm off the wall of the property and dumping it in a bucket of water to muffle the alarm.

Knocking out security lighting on a garden shed

Sedating an Alsatian guard dog and then using a hook to close a gate and lock in part of the garden

One of the raiders was caught close-up on CCTV

The gang, which is also believed to have included two getaway drivers in a BMW and a Seat Leon, were foiled when a neighbour saw one of them and went to investigate.

Homeowner and businessman Malachy Joyce, 32, said: “A police officer who looked at the CCTV told me in his 16 years in the force he had never seen such a professional job. It was like a military operation, and they were seconds away from getting in.

“They had put in a rear window and were about to break in when a neighbour saw a shadow of one of them and decided to have a look what was going on.

“When the burglars first arrived the dog went for them, after they climbed on the roof of the shed but they spent 30 minutes balancing on fencing to coax it into its pen in a yard, wriggling a brush in its face, then closed the gate to make sure the dog was locked in the enclosure.

The raiders turn off the street lighting

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“Then they threw something for it behind the shed. When my mum called at the house later,the dog was completely unresponsive. We took him to the vets but he is okay. They had given him something to sedate him.

“I will need a new alarm system, and a new front door, and windows at the front and rear.

“One of the men was about 5ft 6in but very muscular. On the CCTV you can see his muscles through his shirt. The other man is about 6ft 4in or 6ft 5in. One looks straight into the camera as he climbs to remove the alarm.

“There were two other men. One was waiting in a dark BMW and the other white Seat Leon nearby.”